Based on a True Story I imagined that I could hear the gears slowly grinding in the clock on the wall, bogged down by iron oxide and dust, bringing time to an even slower crawl than usual. But the professor’s dull monotone grated on my ears even more as he … Continue reading

TWA #2 – Creatures Great and Small by Caleb Newell TWA#2 – Expanding Scope by Joseph Devon The authorial sands of The Writer’s Arena are thirsty for blood and ink! This true debut of the arena comes in all shapes and sizes, all relative times and places. A Sense … Continue reading

Who’s ready to for some online short stories? Welcome to the first official Writer’s Arena! This week our challengers will be Joseph Devon and Caleb Newell. There’s a bit you probably remember from Alice in Wonderland in which our eponymous heroine finds herself in a room with a cake and a vial, … Continue reading

Daisy, Daisy by Albert Berg In the asphalt wastelands of Proxima Five where the robots drive long chains of shopping carts to the markets of sector FH732, one herder, JW137 by designation uncovered something strange. He refreshed his visual sensors several times, sure there must be some glitch, but the … Continue reading

Black Gold by Joseph Devon Under the shadows of the trees it was still cold. The far side of the stream, where the morning sun had been shining for some time, was beginning to warm and the sounds of melting snow mixed with the trickle of the stream as … Continue reading

Who’s ready for some short stories? We’ve got ourselves a head-to-head story competition between Joseph Devon and Albert Berg. This is the first entry in a project proposed by the Joseph Devon; a few days ago he dropped some bloggage on what you are in for. Now, most of our audience is American, … Continue reading